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Its come to my attention that I am so anal about composition that I even agonize over the perfect placement of my tag. Is it subtle enough that people notice the photo and not my tag? Does it off set the composition of the photograph? Does it make the picture uncomfortable to look at? I actually spent almost 15 min on one pic, bothered by the way putting a tag anywhere on the image made it feel off. In the end I gave up and put it where I usually default to.
At any rate, this was an interesting experiment. I found out that I loathe auto printing places. It seems all the images they run through have an auto contrast adjustment and it RUINED the images that I purposely underexposed for shadows. I also loved how every image on the effing disk came out looking as though they printed them with the negative upside down. Granted, I got the images processed and then put on disk instead of film this time so it wasn't too much trouble to flip them all around, but I paid money for this service, I'd like it done correctly.
However, there were several shots I set up for perfect composition, metered for light and turned out to be so-so shots. The ones I messed up ended up being WAY more fun:
This one was all shaky and out of focus because I used the 200mm lens without a tripod, but after a little tweaking-using the same technique I did on my father's cart-I got this and ended up muuuuuch happier with it.
End of roll and beginning of roll shots. I've seen people actually purposely do this in PS and strangely enough, I really liked them. I'm especially fond of the negative hole in the first, yet another reason I'm so fond of WG's FINE developing service. But again, it adds something to the pic that I wouldn't have otherwise and I really have grown fond of it. I'm thinking of framing the two of these in a series for my wall.
I kept trying to take pictures without the damn fence line in them and I actually ended up liking the one with the fence in the pic the best. It almost has a voyeuristic effect.
I kept trying to get the glare out of the picture but really, the one with glare turned out best.